Top 68 Unimaginative Quotes
#1. Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of the general disorder and unimaginative meanness of the world surrounding her.
Joe Meno
#2. The yawn of the void. A siren call for the unimaginative
Dean Cavanagh
#3. You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.
Tibor Fischer
#4. Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
Franklin P. Adams
#5. Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
#6. To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative.
Jeffrey Veen
#7. Cursing is the crutch of an unimaginative mind.
Rick Yancey
#8. Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative
Paul Banks
#9. It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By the time you can see it, you are powerless or unable to resist it and it rolls you up and away.
Nicci French
#10. Only the unimaginative fear death when it's oblivion that cuts deepest.
Sergio De La Pava
#11. The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
A.A. Gill
#12. Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a
red flag to a bu ... was like putting something very annoying in front of
someone who was annoyed by it.
Terry Pratchett
#13. Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.
John Landgraf
#15. When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.
Anne McCaffrey
#17. Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.
Ezra Pound
#18. I would sooner become a spinster than spend a lifetime with a boring, unimaginative man.
Lynn Austin
#19. Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
Oscar Wilde
#20. Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.
Franny Billingsley
#23. Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
Brooks Atkinson
#24. Those who think of metaphysics as the most unconstrained or speculative of disciplines are misinformed; compared with cosmology, metaphysics is pedestrian and unimaginative. - Stephen Toulmin
Sean Carroll
#25. The criminal mind is perverted and convoluted but almost invariably unimaginative,'he said as Molly came out in a fluster
M.R.C. Kasasian
#26. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
J.K. Rowling
#27. The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
H.G.Wells
#28. Who could anticipate or provide for such a succession of hopes and services?" Her answer is simple: "Only an unimaginative man would think he could; only an arrogant man would want to.
James C. Scott
#29. Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
A. N. Wilson
#30. An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
John Ruskin
#31. Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
Alain De Botton
#32. The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative.
Ron Brackin
#33. It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of men's incomprehension of women, a symptom of women's mistrust of men.
Francis Wyndham
#35. Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.
Seth Klarman
#36. I don't object to the proliferation of the 'f-bomb' in screenplays because the adjective is vulgar but because it is unimaginative.
Ron Brackin
#37. He became an unimaginative woman's creation. Delilah had shorn his locks and assured him he looked much neater and cooler without them. He gave her his soul, and she transformed it into a cabbage.
Robertson Davies
#38. To the pure, all things are pure," Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus' best soothsayer voice, "and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.
Barbara Hambly
#39. Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?
Malcolm Bradbury
#40. Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play unimaginative backdrops to their acts. What's really exciting is when you spark off a dialogue between very different musical forces.
Charles Hazlewood
#41. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Nick Hornby
#42. The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.
Albert Einstein
#43. Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
Mary Wesley
#44. To avoid a repeat of this near disaster, the Council of Genres took the only course of action open to them to ensure TGC would be too inefficient and unimaginative to pose a threat. They appointed a committee to run it.
Jasper Fforde
#45. Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
James Surowiecki
#46. It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ...
Sarah Orne Jewett
#47. Sometimes an unimaginative mind can imagine the most unimaginable
Munia Khan
#48. Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.
Kurt Vonnegut
#49. don't understand why people think that every young man ought to go down-town and work ten hours a day for the best twenty years of his life at dull, unimaginative work,
F Scott Fitzgerald
#50. She discovered that a great deal of the suffering in this world is due not so much to original sin, but to a kind of original stupidity, an unimaginative, stubborn stupidity.
George Sand
#51. Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better - in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.
Larry McMurtry
#52. I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.
Tom Paulin
#53. pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative.
Dean Koontz
#54. Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
P. J. O'Rourke
#55. The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.
William, Saroyan
#56. It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
Oscar Wilde
#57. Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?
Sylvia Plath
#58. To introduce real people into a novel or a play is a sign of an unimaginative mind, a coarse, untutored observation and an entire absence of style.
Oscar Wilde
#59. I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.
John Waters
#60. The notion of a universe filled with cowards ... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become ... seems no[t] only unimaginative and temporally myopic, but deeply dismal, as well.
David Brin
#61. Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew
knew
that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
J.D. Salinger
#62. Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriously, they keep it interesting for candidates who, believe it or not, can get a little tired of the mannered, predictable, and unimaginative qualities that typically afflict modern political campaigns.
John McCain
#63. Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.
Marlen Haushofer
#64. A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ...
Margaret Halsey
#65. Only an unimaginative man would think that mechanistic, command-and-control organizations could ever produce an equitable, enduring, free society. Only a thoughtless man would create them. Only an arrogant man would run them. Only a cruel man would perpetuate them.
Dee Hock
#67. Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think
John Gierach
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